Nocturnowl
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Why isn't he facing the broom at Wrestlemania?
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canadian crowe
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A broom without bristles.
Vince is so pissed he didn't think of this first.
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sf2fanatic
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He's too busy figuring out not to cripple Taker and make the end of the match a
hugging
Liquidsnake
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That's funny, It's a good thing he doesn't want to destroy UT legacy, and end him. He is a smart business man.
BoboBrazil
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Undertaker still has to fight Lesnar next year. When are the Briscoes ROH contract up? Last thing I was able to find was them signing a contract extension in Jan 2011, which I assume was for 1 year and should be up now. It would be really interesting to see them in WWE.
Liquidsnake
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I miss hearing his music hit. Him and Batista were huge losses man. They has legit stars in both of them.
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i expect hardy to go on a high rant about cm punk looking like that
BoboBrazil
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25-0? Honestly the guy will probably want to keep coming back year after year for 1 month, wrestle one 20-30 min match and collect his 1 huge payday for Mania, and then go back home for another year. He's got it good right now. If this was his final match they would be hyping it up much more than what they are doing, plus they will want his final match to be the focal point of that Mania, which it isn't this year with Rock/Cena.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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23-0, since it's the evilest number in the history of evil numbers
I just don't see Undertaker lasting 5 more years. Even if he only works Mania. The Deadman ain't what he used to be.
Nocturnowl
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Real life responsibilities will do that to a man
BoboBrazil
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It's not like many of his Wrestlemania matches were classics anyway. HBK got good matches out of him, but other than that many of them aren't memorable. The streak is it's own gimmick at this point anyway and more important than match quality. Match quality isn't that important and can be covered up with gimmicks like HIAC anyway also.
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Is Hardy methed-up to the eyeballs or does he just not give a shit?
Nocturnowl
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I'd imagine it's both
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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I don't know, his matches with Edge, Batista, and Triple H (at 27) were arguably the best matches at their respective Manias. I doubt Undertaker would want to tarnish the string of quality of his last 5 mania matches.
Killing_Joke
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My section went pretty nuts as well...I was pissed off becuase i knew he was to win and ruin another event...this was going to be the first Cenaless show in NY in years and that fucker got us...Takers WM20 pop is probably my favorite but this was the best swerve i have ever been apart of.
I think after Batista @ 23, Edge @ 24, HBK @ 25, 26 and HHH @ 27, 28 people are expecting big Wrestlemania main event quality matches from Undertaker each year. If Undertaker had a match vs someone like Wade Barrett at Wrestlemania next year people would be disappointed. I could see vs Jericho or vs Punk for the streak being a draw, but I don't know if Undertaker has 5 years left of the kind of matches people expect from him.
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Biggest-Geek-Ever
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Does it freak anyone else out wondering what it'd be like if Diesel had decided he wanted to go over Undertaker back then?
Bossman and A-Train were good workers. Sid and Diesel need guys like Bret Hart or HBK to carry them, but it isn't impossible.
Giants Gonzalez was a lost cause.
That be crazy... like, the butterfly effect
But he doesn't has to be.
He's plenty capable of wrestling once a year, if he so chooses. It may not be any good... but we'll watch anyway. Hogan just wrestled in October and Philadelphia went batshit for him v. Sting.
The Bossman match I don't even count it because all he did was hang him.
edit: I would love to see Cena vs Undertaker just to see Cena lose clean.
I know it's me and all, but his match vs. Kane at WM 14 is arguably the best big man match in WWE history, with the possible exception of their Inferno match. Hell, probably the best big man vs. big man match that I can remember.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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I keep hoping the Undertaker repeats this spot at some point: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNYkB8r_ZOY&feature=related#t=5m28s
Mr. Enigma
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It would end in DQ or with Cena's leg on the rope.
Nocturnowl
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It's a shame that none of the many rematches that followed couldn't top the first at WM14, in fact one could argue that WM14 is the only one that was genuinely good (Inferno is a nice spectacle though) and I say this as a man who holds Kane/Taker as their favourite feud.
More annoying is that their 2010 trilogy got kind of screwed by the pg rating and the fact the two don't mesh as well as expected , my long awaited Kane/Taker HIAC match was very non hellish and concluded in bewilderingly bad fashion with MAGICAL URN LIGHT BEAM or something. But hey at least Kane finally got some wins.
I'd still lap up a dvd of all their matches though, come on greatest rivalries dvd/blu-ray!
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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JEEZUS... that top rope dragon suplex at 4:30 looked like absolute death.
TheNatural
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Damn, remembering when Cena was awesome and tolerable, seems like a century ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUdQvUr80-k&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUdQvUr80-k&feature=related
Their last series of matches was screwed up by Taker's shoulder, which was so badly injured that they had to end the feud early.
You know, it's funny, but I think you're right. The rest of their matches have been pretty bad, but I think that has more to do with the circumstances surrounding it than their abilities together. WM 20 was a squash match, SummerSlam 2000 was actually a good brawl, their match after WM 24 was booked that neither wanted to hurt the other, their last trilogy Taker was injured badly, their seccond inferno match was good for a RAW match, the first time Kane won in 1998 against Taker was good for a RAW match, Survivor Series 1998 was actually pretty good.
Their worst match together has to be Judgment Day 1998. Just horrible booking, and incredibly slow. The match made no sense, and nothing happens. A couple blown spots too.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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I kind of recall Summerslam 2000 being a bit of a squash too. Didn't Undertaker steal his mask or something?
Don't know if this been posted but here is a new burying time gif. All it needs is someone putting that into the gif:
so good
BoboBrazil
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The match ended in a no contest, since it never got started, lol. Yeah, I guess you could it was a bit of a squash too, but I thought Kane got some decent offense in.
Mr. Enigma
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:lol
The Undertaker/Kane thing at Summerslam 2000 was so fucking random. The match was supposed to be Big Show vs. Taker, but WWE got pissed at how obese and lazy Show was getting and sent him to OVW.
Then they just had Kane randomly turn heel on him the week before Summerslam, where they had a match that Taker won in about 5 minutes. Then he ripped off half of his mask and never acknowledged anything from it ever again. Kane was back the next night with his full mask and that was that. A few months later, they were all cool again.
Nocturnowl
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Oh yeah, forgot about Taker's injury, that's why they had him literally buried in the first place....and they never followed up on it regarding the Nexus.
The WM20 squash match is pretty fun in a way, even if Kane is booked like a coward which is plain silly.
Judgement Day 1998 was really more about Austin if I remember correctly and his screwy refereeing. Austin sure does a lot of guest refereeing, Foley as well.
Summerslam 2000 was just odd, random Kane heel turn for some reason with little build up, Taker swipes the mask at the ppv and that was pretty much it, they were the best of friends again a few months later.
Heh, I just remembered how gutted me and my brother were when Kane and Taker lost to the power trip at Backlash 2001, I feel that whole feud between those four is kind of underrated.
edit: Ah, an explanation for the SS 2000 thing, considering Big Show was taken off tv back in May you'd think they would have dealt with a backup plan a bit earlier.
I never knew it was supposed to be Taker/Big Show. That actually explains a lot. Kane's turn happened so randomly and for no reason besides him being a "monster". There was practically no build up, and it wasn't but a few months later that Kane turned face again, and they reformed the BoD, lol.
Most of JD 1998 was Taker working over Kane's leg, but Taker just isn't that great with submissions, and it ends up being this low agonizing match. The crowd was really starting to turn on the match too, but thankfully, all the guys involved were so damn over.
Here is the full match in case anyone is curious. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZOBGtXDVGU
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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I bet Triple H will see this and book himself to get all three titles by himself.
They should really do more chain matches lol. Love that chair spot.
Hey, it lead to Kane/HHH Chain match for IC title. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6OUU4MYafc
Kccitystar
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Don't know if this been posted but here is a new burying time gif. All it needs is someone putting that into the gif:
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